News Tracker - Monday, 17 February 2025 - 7:27 am

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Property estimated to be worth millions of shillings was destroyed in a fire that broke out in Kiambu Town on Sunday just minutes before midnight.

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Kenya Primary Schools Headteachers Association (KEPSHA) chairperson, Johnson Nzioka, has passed away after his speeding car rammed into a trailer along Mombasa Road while headed to Nairobi.

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Protesters in the United Kingdom, one of Kenya's key diplomatic donors, call for investigations into billions of shillings allocated to non-priority programs in Kenya and other countries. In Kenya, Ksh17.8 million (£110,000) was spent on a conference focused on "preventing gender-based disinformation."

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KICD Chairman Simon Gicharu mourns the late KEPSHA Chair Johnson Nzioka terming his death terming it as a big loss to the education sector.

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Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has reaffirmed that all parameters are being met in the ongoing promotion of teachers by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) after continued reports of irregularities by both the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET).

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Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka argues that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga did not surround himself with a team that is experienced which may have cost him the AUC chair bid. "Instead of taking many of our colleagues from the broad-based government arrangement to Ethiopia, we should have just taken the ambassadors of the countries who were going to vote," he stated.

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Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei demands full implementation of the NADCO Report by amending the 2010 Constitution by creating the Office of the Prime Minister (PM) and allowing Raila Odinga to serve Kenyans in that capacity.

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Mumias East MP Peter Salasya proposes that Kenya should have a Prime Minister as the head of government and a monarch as the head of state.

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Kenya Power report shows that its electricity demand peaked at 2,316 megawatts linking the growth to network improvements and increased connections.

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A community of the deaf staged protests in Nakuru after the body of a 7-month-old baby living with disability vanished from the Nakuru Level Five Hospital morgue. 

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Deputy President Kithure Kindiki announces that 19.5 million citizens have been registered on Social Health Authority (SHA) so far noting that the state is making policy and administrative interventions to address emerging challenges in the Taifa Care rollout.

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Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa announced that the government is working to increase funds allocated for ICU patients by SHA to Ksh28,000 from Ksh4,480 while that of cancer patients will rise from Ksh400,000 to Ksh550,000.

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Sleuths from EACC arrested the Principal Prosecution Counsel in charge of ODPP in Kilgoris after he was captured on video soliciting a bribe worth Ksh50,000 to fast-track a businessman's case.

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Kenyan files a petition seeking the removal of Migori Magistrate Mathias Okuche for alleged professional misconduct, partiality, and violation of the rule of law.

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President William Ruto has appointed Ndungu Athinji as the Chairperson of the Kenya Tea Board for a three-year term, revoking the appointment of Jacob Kamau Kahiu, who previously held the position.

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The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed that a senior prosecutor arrested on allegations of soliciting a KSh50,000 bribe proceed on compulsory leave with immediate effect.

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Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has appealed his 12-year sentence through lawyer Danstan Omari, citing a health condition.

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Transport Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir has announced an increase in the number of weighbridges across the country as part of the government's ongoing efforts to enhance transport efficiency.

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The Registrar of Companies, Joyce Koech, has directed the immediate deregistration of 177 companies and issued a warning to 44 more in a series of notices in the Kenya Gazette.

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The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) has announced that it will commence its strike today at midnight, citing unfulfilled Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) demands.

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The National Assembly has dismissed an attempt to initiate a censure motion against Speaker Moses Wetang'ula.